Happy Birthday Grandma Billi!! I hope that you have a great birthday even though you're sick and not feeling that great :) - you're the best Great Grandma & Grandma!!

Happy 3 Month birthday Scarlett!!

Scarlett turned 3 months old on March 3rd!! She is such a big girl now! haha - she is so cute, talking, laughing, and sleeping better and better at night :)

Her favorite thing right now is sleeping in her swing and on dadda, watching Boston be crazy, and to do some inch worms on the floor. She is so precious and cute and is feeling so much better now that we have her food situation all figured out. She seems to like the babysitter and the babysitter really loves her and says that she is such an easy baby - so that's a good thing :)

HAPPY 3 MONTH BIRTHDAY SCARLETT!!!

Boston Being SOOO Cute with Dadda

These pictures make me laugh - Boston was being so cute and watching Andy shave and trim his beard and decided that he would let dadda put shaving cream on his face. Then shortly after he had it on his face he was whinning to get it off because, in his words, "it burns!!". I guess the menthol in the shaving cream was making his face burn - even though it actually makes it feel cool :) - The other picture was me trying to take a picture of Boston in the morning when he came in and I was just finishing feeding Scarlett. He doesn't really like to take pictures lately and does his weird smile - but here he was playing a shy game with me and I couldn't resist not taking a picture of him.. haha he's so silly :)

Family Party and Back to work!!

My Brother, Yury came into town for a visit from Seattle, WA and while he was in town on business we got together for a family dinner and to celebrate Tate's Birthday :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TATE!! It was really great to see everyone, even Chandy and Casey came up from Plain City to celebrate and see Yury. Chandy just had her Gaul Bladder out the week before the celebration so she wasn't quite 100% yet. Yury seemed to really be enjoying himself in Seattle and liked his new office and the people that he worked with. It seems like a really nice place to live and I wouldn't mind living there :)

Here's a picture of my mom getting the birthday cake ready for the kids



Here is my dad and Yury hanging out talking after dinner was over. It's so much fun just to sit around and talk with everyone, to laugh and tease each other. It really was a great night and we sure to miss Yury and Caryn and their kids!!

So back to work I goooooo... da da da.. it was really hard going back to work the first week.. and well, still is hard. It's hard to keep focus at work when all I want to do is know what's going on at home with the kids at night. We found a new babysitter, her name is Danielle. She has two twin boys that are 4 years old (Logan and Jayde) and then two older girls that are both in school all day 7 and 9 I believe. By the looks of their room they are really into Hannah Montana :) haha silly girls. I wonder what crazy thing Scarlett and Boston will be in when they get a little older.

The first day dropping Scarlett and Boston off was really hard.. My mom called me on the way to work and I almost lost my nerve.. turned around and said screw this madness!!! But I held my wits and got to work in one piece with only a few tears shed. Sad that you have to leave such little tiny things to be looked after by some stranger in hopes that all will go well and nothing horrible will happen while you're gone. But on the up side of things, I have a job and I have income coming in and I am grateful for that!! It was hard to go back to work, I have a new manager and a couple new members on the team. Things have of course changed a lot, including processes and policies. So needless to say, I am still catching up on some things, but other things came back to me really quickly and I was happy for that.

Here's Scarlett hanging out on her play mat.. she loves this thing to death!

Here's Scarlett and Boston - Boston just HAD to be in the picture with his sister and almost killed her trying to get under the play mat to be with her. Don't you love his goofy new smile.. hahah just kidding, I hate it .. grrr - this is how he will smile know even if you try to get him to show his teeth or just do a normal smile.. I don't know what his deal is, he must think that he looks cute doing this or maybe he thinks it's funny that mom gets mad at him when he does it.. grrr

Tato bug with BIG BIG eyes.. I don't know what she was looking at.. I think the blinds from the window across from her.. she digs horizontal lines :)

Once again... Boston butting in and giving me that AWESOME smile.. hahaha - as you can see from Scarlett's expression, she thinks he a pretty big dork too.

New outfits, new jammies, and a new hair cut

Scarlett got some new clothes this week, you can kind of see them in the pictures towards the bottom. The froggy princess outfit. Boston got some new jammies in the mail from his aunt Crista. They are super cute and he loves them. He loves to get mail from his favorite aunt. Boston also got a new hair cut this week. I guess the long shaggy look is just never going to take. haha

The twins boys, Logan and Jayde, that Boston plays with while being babysat, let him borrow this little skate board for a day. So he had to get all of his knee pads and elbow pads on and skate around the house. It was so cute and he had so much fun. Now when he sees things on T.V. where people are doing skateboarding tricks, he thinks that they are cool!! It might be something fun for him to do this summer - maybe a Easter present?!?!

Scarlett is getting bigger!!

Scarlett just had her 2 month check up this morning and she is getting pretty big :) She's almost as big as Boston was at birth now haahah.. crazy. She is at 8 lbs 7 oz and is now a little over 21 inches long. So she's really long and pretty skinny still. I think that the only reason that she actually weighs as much as she does is because I just moved her over to formula and she is now actually getting a little bit more fat on her (thank goodness!!) Even though the fomula is harder on her belly and makes it hard for her to poop, she's getting bigger and sleeps better and is in general a better, happier baby girl :) - The doctor said that she's doing really well and that she has really good neck strength in holding up her head and that she has really great lungs - probably she was crying the entire time he was poking her with his tools hahaha. Maybe he had cold hands or something.

At the pediatricians they have the little bed that you set the babies up on and along the back of the bed (on the wall) they've put a wall, so when the babies are laying down they can see themselves in the mirror. Scarlett thinks that this is the coolest thing and gets pretty happy when she sees herself and feels the crunchy paper under her naked back and legs. The Doctor, Doctor Mumford, tells Boston that he has to watch the horses out the window to make sure they don't run away. This distracts Boston just long enough to be able to talk to me about what's going on and how things are. Boston asks Dr. Mumford at least 50 questions before we leave and he is extremely patient and kind to Boston and his social nature :)

Happy 2 month old birthday to MEEEE!!!

Today I turned two months old and here are a couple of things that I'm doing :)

- I'm able to hold my head up pretty well for a short period of time.

- I'm able to roll my body to the side and from the side onto my back, I'm a pretty strong little girl.

- I am starting to talk a little bit.

- My favorite place to be right now is my changing table or anywhere in my own bedroom. I just talk and smile and get so excited.

- I attrack all sorts of attention from my big brother. He loves to crawl all over me, sit under my play mat with me and make fun of my crying. Sometimes this hurts my feelings and makes me cry harder. Momma tells me just to ignore him and he'll stop trying to bug me, but it's really hard to do :)

- I have to get my immunization shots tomorrow and I'm a little scared but I'm excited to find out how much I weigh and how much bigger I am.

Best Day EVER!!!!

Best Day Ever!!

Let me just start with saying that I had gotten about 2 hours of sleep in the night because Scarlett was having belly issues.. poor little thing, she just couldn't get comfortable :( - So Boston was going crazy, I think that he's so sick of being stuck inside the house and not doing really anything but listening to Scarlett cry and playing games with mom when she has a second. So I decided to save both of our sanity's that we would go to McDonalds to let him play and get some of his energy out. The plan was to go there after his nap... So I got him all ready for his nap at 11:30 am which is a little early for him. But he was so tired that I thought it would be alright. I got him in bed and everything and he came out 4 times saying different things like I slept ... after 2 minutes of being in his room.. he did that twice and then the other two times were to either go potty or to get a drink. UGHHH, so I gave up on the nap because I was already so frustrated with him that he didn't just stay in his bed.. so I decided that he would have to take a nap after McDonalds because I had clearly excited him to much about going to McDonalds when he woke up that he couldn't relax and sleep.. Note to self - when going to McDonalds, either go after the nap or wait to tell the child that we are going to go there after the nap has already taken place..

So we get to McDonalds.. he's all excited and runs to the play area and rips off his shoes throws them in the shoe holder thing and starts running around in the tubes.. He comes and finds me while I'm ording our food and is all smiles and looks so cute that I just can't help but forget about the napping issues. He is such a cute little boy.. He helps me take his drink to the table and then asks for me to help him go down the big slide. He has already gone down the big slide all on his own before but it had been a while so I think that's why he was a little apprehensive about going again.. I told him over and over again that he could do it all on his own and there was no way I was going to go in those discusting tubes BLECK!!! So I told him to make friends and to follow there and figure out how to go down the slide. So he made friends with two little boys there. There were also a group of girls probably 4 or 5 years old and there were about 3 of them running around pretending to be some form of disney princess.. calling eachother by princess names.. 'Princess Bell', 'Princess Ariel'.. hahaha it was was really cute and I then pictured Scarlett doing that when she was older and how cute I would think she was being.. haha silly girls. Boston was running around like a mad man with these two boys.. some how Boston had talked these boys into being super heros and they would go up into this room (see picture) and tell the girls that they weren't allowed in there because they weren't boys and then they would proceed to tell the girls that they were Batman and Iron Man and Spider Man hahah.. the girls were getting upset because the boys were literally not letting the girls enter the room so that they could go down the big slide. This was so cute to watch and funny and I had never seen him exclude girls before like that so it was pretty funny.

I called him down to eat some of his happy meal... he comes down and goes to sit my me and dumps all of our food all over the floor as shown here... this is after I had already cleaned up most of the food and cleaned off the chicken nugget sauce off the diaper back an my shoe :(

After all was said and done, we lived and actually I didn't have to go buy any new food because none of the actual food opened up or touched the ground.. just this sauce and the fries were all effected. The other parents around me kept giving me looks of sympathy so I'm sure that they have all gone through something similar. Accidents happen, I was just already so tired and stressed from a day of him not wanting to listen or mind or do really anything but chase Rex around all over the house screaming at the top of his lungs and talking back like a 15 year old teenager. I thought that came later and I thought only girls would talk back like that.. Boys are not void of this terrific talent, so be warned :)

Needless to say, this was him on the way home from there.. We actually stayed and let him play for about two hours. Scarlett slept in her car seat the entire time and the only thing I wished I would've done was take a book to read. Instead I watched the kids do silly things and wished that I was tiny like that again, to be so uninhibited and free to imagine anything and not look like a complete nut for doing so. I'm sure if you found a group of adults calling eachother by super hero and princess names, that they might get a few strange looks hahaha, can you imagine.

The ABC's of having a new baby!!

A - is for ALMOST, as in - I was almost able to get enough sleep last night and Scarlett Almost went down for a nap until Boston came in screaming about something.
B - is for BABY, Boston has decided to become a baby since we brought Scarlett home. He goes around speaking baby and searching for his binki and bottle - a common thing for kids to get new babies in the house.
C - is for CAREFUL, since Boston loves to get in Scarlett's face and talk to her and touch her eyes and nose and mouth.... BE CAREFUL Boston as become a common phrase in our house
D - is for DIAPERS, since we go through about 30 diapers a day with Scarlett. Unless you're dadda and then she will just pee all over her clothes and changing pad instead of in the diaper :)
E - is for ENERGY, which is what I wish I had :).... Boston is so active and Scarlett is so demanding right now that I wish I had just a little more energy to help me get some things completed before I have to go back to work.
F - is for FORGETFUL, since it seems that since Scarlett has been born that both Andy and I have forgotten so many things. Some of them include - losing our USB modem, car keys, books, tools, Boston's toys, etc.
G - is for GIRLY, it's been really fun getting all things girly.
H - is for HOW THE HELL... as in Boston, how the hell did you get water all over the entire bathroom floor and how the hell did you eat all of that candy in one day?
I - is for ILLUSIONS, I think that both Andy and myself will begin seeing Illusions if we don't get more sleep!!
J - is for JOKER, since Boston now likes to go around saying, "I'm so serious!" (I know that it's not the real saying, but Boston has made it all his own... one of the lines in the new Batman - Dark Knight movie
K - is for KINDNESS, so many people have helped us out with so many things and have come to visit us - showing us their support and love. There's nothing more that a family could wish for :)
L - is for LOVE, Andy said that he didn't know if he could love another kid as much as he loves the Boston and Scarlett already has him wrapped around his little finger :) We all love her so much and are so grateful for her.
M - is for MONEY, which I wish we had more of :)
N - is for NURSING, which I've been successful at this time around. Although it has been really challenging at times and worried me a little bit, it has been going well. One down side is that Andy can't feed her :(
O - is for "OOPS, it was and accident" - which is Boston's favorite new saying when he does anything naughty and intentional. He thinks that if he says, "Oops, it was an Accident" that he can get away with murder.
P - is for POOP, which Andy has become very familiar with since the birth of Scarlett. If you ever want a reason to NOT get a dog, then just imagine cleaning up poop and puked up poop from a dog named Rex every time you come home from spending time with your new precious baby girl.
Q - is for QUIET, please just give me some quiet!!!!
R - is for REFLUX, poor Scarlett has had really bad reflux which has caused her to be really sensitive, gassy, and sleepy.
S - is for SCOOTER, which is what Santa brought Boston for Christmas this year. Since it's been too cold and snowy to ride it outside, he's been riding it around the kitchen and running into walls, into Rex, and my favorite into my heels and toes!!! Thank goodness for Scooters and Santa :)
T - is for TIME, I really wish that I could slow time, it's already been a month since Scarlett was born and it's gone by so fast.
U - is for UNDERSTANDING, Andy has been so understanding through all of the crazy mood swings that I've gone through both during my pregnancy and after. It's hard to have a new baby and to have your body all broken and hurting. I wanted to give my husband and great big thank you for being so understanding and compassionate :)
V - is for VIDEO GAMES, which Boston is currently begging us to play with him.
W - is for WINTER, which I'm so entirely sick of that I could puke. The vacation channel has been viewed on more than one occasion so I could mentally get out of the snow and put myself onto a nice white sandy beach :)
X - is for X-MAS, Scarlett's first x-mas was extremely nice, we didn't do much or really get much, but having her here with us was really all that we could ask for and want this year. She is healthy and strong and soooooo precious!
Y - is for YELLING, which I've decided to work on as a New Year's resolution. I tend to raise my voice to get Boston's attention and I don't want to be known as a yeller - I need to take more time with Boston in talking with him and actually going to him to get his attention instead of yelling in his direction.
Z - is for ZOO, this place that used to just have one child roaming around being destructive will now have two. I love having two kids, but wow, it's a really big change. If it's not Boston crying or whining it's Scarlett screaming at the top of her lungs because her brother has just screamed or threw something and it startled her from sleep.